#cant

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. ↗

— Nigel Short

#britain #british #comes #compulsory #education

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#men

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#i #increased #net #ownership #shares

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. ↗

— John M. Ford

#creating #different #fiction #fictional #game

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#archbishop #canterbury #i #illusion #left

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#convalescence #going #kind #lights #neutral

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#around #based #countries #degree #dollar

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#audience #i #liberal #mind #open

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#fixed #flash #forever #illuminated #life

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#about #else #other #romance #significant